The Long Deep Grudge

Book Review| March 01 2021 The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland by Toni Gilpin The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland, Gilpin, Toni, Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2019, 425 pp., $65 (cloth); $21.95 (paper); $20.00 (ebook) Charles Postel Charles Postel San Francisco State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2021) 18 (1): 109–111. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-8767447 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Charles Postel; The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland by Toni Gilpin. Labor 1 March 2021; 18 (1): 109–111. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-8767447 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsLabor Search Advanced Search Toni Gilpin has written a splendid history of industrial conflict. Big capital in the title refers to the implacably antiunion owners of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, which in 1902 merged into International Harvester (IH). The radical labor of the title are mainly the officers, shop stewards, and the rank and file of the United Farm Equipment Workers (FE), a left-wing union that successfully organized the McCormick/IH workers in the late 1930s. The resulting story of class war is powerfully told and deeply researched. It is also a story of contemporary relevance that opens windows on big historical questions.The author began this study in the 1980s as a doctoral student in the Yale history department and part of a cohort mentored by David Montgomery. In many ways, Gilpin delivers on what was so exciting and promising about that historiographical moment.... © 2021 by Labor and Working-Class History Association2021 Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content

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